Le 19/05/2013 14:52, Michael Dorrington a écrit : > I posted in December 2012 and January 2013 to this list about how > including manuals which are under the GFDL with Invariant Sections or > other unmodifiable parts (which is similar to a CC with ND licence) in a > distribution makes that distribution non-free. The FSF agree in this > article: > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html#opinions > [..]
> However, the FSF still distribute manuals under the GFDL with Invariant > Sections or other unmodifiable parts. > > The FSF's "Guidelines for Free System Distributions" does not forbid the > inclusion of manuals under this licence so a distribution conforming to > those guidelines does not mean it is free. And, for example, Trisquel > includes such manuals in its repo which (I assume) is setup on install > thus making Trisquel a non-free distribution. [...] > How can we get the FSF to recognise this and so change the licence it > uses for its manuals to be a free one? > > This is one historical point of disagreement between Debian(FSGuidelines)/FSF, and has been highly discussed. Unfortunately... Sometimes opinions are not flexible: you should wait for a good circumstance. This thread and issued document by Michal could emphasize the problem, but you're pleased to find a solution ;) -- TSFH
